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Kyocera International Inc.
Real-time management of parts orders,
inventory and shipping through the RPA solution UiPath!
As Kyocera Corporation's North American business project, Kyocera International Inc. has been a continuous creator of new value in order to bring satisfaction to its customers. At the heart of its business is its automotive parts sales division, where high-quality, real-time management of inventory and shipments is called for. The company adopted the RPA solution "UiPath" for the division, allowing it to automate work that was previously done by hand. Employees' workload was greatly reduced while high-quality, real-time management was achieved and productivity raised.
Multiple issues were solved by introducing UiPath
Time and effort expended
on manual data entry
Large amounts of information required to be accurately entered for electronic orders. Much time required for both entry and checking.
Human error unavoidable
Manual data entry unavoidably has human error, affecting shipment amounts and leading to large amounts of time spent making corrections.
Workload reduction needed for automotive parts sales division
Workload reduction was urgently needed because regular for the division required lotstraining of time.
Automation of data entry reduced the required work time to as low as 1/10 or less
No more data entry errors, greatly improving productivity
Workload reduced by up to 10 hours per month, freeing up time to explore new business opportunities
- Until now, the company had only been able to manage inventory once a week, but thanks to automation, now it can do real-time inventory every day.
- Staff were able to experience the improvement themselves, raising their motivation for further efficiency improvements.
Why and how did you choose UiPath?
Suited to time-sensitive work, KDDI's success gave confidence
Searching for a way to improve the productivity of the automotive components sales division, Divisional Vice President Kazumi Nishikawa began looking at RPA.
"RPA eliminates human error, and I was already interested in new technology. When I received an explanation from KDDI about how UiPath could raise productivity, I found UiPath to be well-suited to the automation of managing shipments and inventory, which require real-time updates." As for his selection of KDDI and UiPath, Nishikawa said, "UiPath solutions can be shared amongst similar tasks, and KDDI's global success with UiPath gave me confidence."
Results of using UiPath
Work that took about an hour now possible in 5 minutes
Through RPA, Kyocera International was able to greatly reduce its data entry workload. Product Development Manager Kazuomi Baba says, "Until now it took large amounts of time to check that massive amounts of data were being input without mistakes, but thanks to RPA it is now done accurately and quickly and the burden on the staff has been reduced. In America this type of work easily becomes a black box only understood by whoever is doing it, but with RPA we were able to lay out and visualize the process."
Further efficiency through standardization
In preparation for sharing RPA solutions across tasks, Kyocera International standardized its shipment management forms. Mr. Baba says, "For sharing RPA solutions, we standardized our shipment management Excel files' formats so that they could be used for multiple companies. Changes like this should reduce our workload burden going into the future."
A stop to overwork and better use of human resources
Through the introduction of RPA, the Automotive Components Sales Division was able to cut about 10 hours of work per month. This has allowed it to take on new tasks without hiring new staff. Mr. Nishikawa says, "RPA had the effect not only of reducing the burden of routine work, but of allowing us to focus human resources on work with high added value." He expressed his intention to continue the RPA journey, saying, "We would like to look at deploying the RPA solutions we have so far to similar tasks, and at whether RPA can be used in other divisions."
Customer profile
Kyocera International Inc.
- Head office
- 8611 Balboa Avenue San Diego CA
92123-1580 U.S.A. - Establishment
- 1969
Kyocera International Inc. is Kyocera Corporation's North American business, selling automotive parts and other products to the North American market. It operates under a corporate mission to supply products and services that bring joy to customers. Through the "Kyocera Philosophy" borne of its people-centric management and the carrying out of its "Amoeba Management", the company continues producing new value for customers.


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4 years after move Seattle sees old team in Finals
Before they became critically acclaimed documentary filmmakers, Adam Brown and Jason Reid were just basketball junkies. And being hoops aficionados, Brown and Reid can appreciate the way the Oklahoma City Thunder play.
But all it takes is one screen shot of owner Clay Bennett or one mention of Oklahoma City's past incarnation as the Seattle SuperSonics to remind them why they can never cheer for the Thunder.
''If this team was still here they would be the most fun and exciting team to watch in the league,'' said Brown, who was co-director of the ''Sonicsgate'' documentary that chronicled the SuperSonics' departure in 2008. ''It's been so hard to root against a team that plays such an exciting brand of basketball.''
Seeing Oklahoma City win the Western Conference crown last week was tough enough for Seattle fans. Now come the NBA finals beginning Tuesday night against Miami and the chance that just four years after a messy divorce from the city of Seattle, the Thunder could be NBA champs, which would only twist the figurative knife for Sonics fans still smarting from the franchise's flight.
Outside of South Florida, there may be no larger collection of Heat fans for the next two weeks than in the Pacific Northwest.
Who knew Seattle could be so crazy for LeBron James and the rest of Miami's stars?
Seattle Mariners ace Felix Hernandez, who has a shrine of Heat jerseys and memorabilia next to his clubhouse locker, said his Twitter feed was filled Saturday night with Seattle fans saying they'd be pulling for the Heat in the Finals.
''I'll win, they'll win. We'll get two wins on Tuesday,'' said Hernandez, who'll be pitching for the Mariners on Tuesday night while Game 1 is taking place in Oklahoma City.
There is very little connection remaining between the current Thunder team and the former Sonics.
Nick Collison and Kevin Durant are the only two Thunder players who actually played for the Sonics in Seattle. Collison, who lives in Seattle during the offseason, has been with the franchise since 2004, while Durant played his rookie season in Seattle.
''We still remember everything, the teams in Seattle that were going to the finals and won the finals back in `79, the Gary Paytons, the Shawn Kemps, the Detlef Schrempfs, the guys that played in this organization,'' Durant said. ''But it feels good to have an opportunity to bring something to Oklahoma City.''
What seems to irritate Seattle residents the most is hearing references to Sonics history, which Oklahoma City owns a share of as part of a settlement reached with Seattle. So when television announcers say it's the first finals appearance for the Thunder franchise since 1996, when the Sonics lost in six games to the Chicago Bulls, it adds to the heartache.
''They're the one championship team we've had here in Seattle,'' said Steven Rupp, who lives in the Queen Anne area around the Sonics' former home, KeyArena, and remembers when Sonics players lived in the neighborhood. ''It would have been good to keep them here.''
For a while, Seattle was numb to the NBA. There was no interest, just bitter feelings about the departure of the Sonics after 41 years and the 1979 title. The championship trophy sits in storage at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry, which is moving to a new facility and hopes to have the trophy on display by the end of the year.
But slowly, an interest in the green and gold has been rekindled.
Jeff Scoma, owner of the Seattle Team Shop, said he stopped carrying any apparel associated with the team when the Sonics left.
About 18 months ago, some fans started inquiring about old Sonics gear. Now, about 5 percent of his sales are related to vintage or throwback hats, shirts and jerseys honoring a franchise that no longer exists.
The timing of Oklahoma City's run to the finals creates a dichotomy for basketball diehards in the area, who are the midst of throwing their support behind a proposal from hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen for a new $490 million basketball arena, which would include nearly $300 million in private investment. The arena is at the heart of efforts to bring back the NBA.
Drumming up support for the arena proposal means showing that Seattle is a market with a great desire for the NBA to return.
Hansen's push includes a large public rally in downtown Seattle on Thursday afternoon featuring former Sonics stars Payton and Kemp. It'll take place just a couple of hours before Game 2 tips off in Oklahoma City.
''I want this city, the city of Seattle, to experience the joy that the citizens of Oklahoma City are experiencing right now,'' Kris Brannon, the self-proclaimed ''Sonics Guy,'' told the Seattle City Council during recent public testimony about the arena. ''By bringing an arena and bringing an NBA team back to Seattle, we can make that happen.''
Added Brown: ''Maybe all the anger and sadness people are feeling about Oklahoma City winning is the best thing we have to motivate our elected officials to get this deal done.''
AP Sports Writer Jeff Latzke in Oklahoma City and Associated Press Writer Manuel Valdes in Seattle contributed to this report.


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A 2,260-student private college in Jefferson, TN is moving its course management onto Edvance360 LMS-SN from Edvance360. Carson-Newman College is a long-time WebCT/Blackboard Campus Edition customer. When the institution learned that support would end for Blackboard CE in 2013, it began an extensive evaluation of alternatives.
According to Valerie Stephens, the college's director of online learning, the school sought a replacement that would address the expanding requirements of online learning, provide a way to manage learning outcomes assessment and accountability, and instill social-networking features into courses.
"With Carson-Newman's new Online Graduate Degree program initiatives, it's critical to make sure our technology system--which includes software, hardware, human resources, and infrastructure--meet the current and growth needs of online programs." She added that the new system needed to support video communication and streaming, offer strong social networking and collaboration tools, and provide mobile computing support. "Given the imminent lack of company support as well as the software's inability to deliver simple video communication or even mobile e-mail support without adding substantial costs, the time had come to explore new possibilities."
The initial schedule for the migration project was 18 months. "Once our IT department and support saw how easy the setup and conversion was, would be we narrowed it to six months," she said. Training began in March 2011; LMS and Datatel administrative system integration work was done in April; at the same time summer faculty received training and summer course materials, and assessments were converted from Blackboard into Edvance360. Once that work is completed, conversion of fall and spring materials will take place. Use of the new LMS will begin with the summer term. The implementation is expected to be done by the end of summer.
Initially, the college will use Edvance360's learning outcomes feature to track how a course meets the formal institutional mission in multiple areas such as critical reading and thinking and oral and written communication. Stephens noted that the "social learning" elements will be useful for promoting a sense of community among students as a whole. She added that the new application will also provide virtual meetings spaces for specific communities of interest such as clubs and service groups. "The students are absolutely looking for online ways to communicate and find support," she said.
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CDT Statement on the House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
Washington, DC – Today, the Center for Democracy & Technology released the following statement calling on the Subcommittee not to dismantle longstanding legal protections that shield online intermediaries – including social networking services and other sites that host user-generated content – from liability for that content. The hearing is being held in the wake of charges that Craigslist hosted advertisements for prostitution and child sex trafficking.
The following statement can be attributed to CDT President Leslie Harris:
"We agree that child sex trafficking is a horrific crime, but the right way to address criminal acts is through aggressive law enforcement, not by making online content platforms liable for the inappropriate or illegal actions of the users of those services."
"Congress took strong action to insulate online intermediaries from liability for user-generated content in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It is precisely these protections—known as Section 230—that led to the dramatic growth of social networking and made the United States the engine of Internet innovation and free expression it is today. We urge this Subcommittee to exercise great caution before it considers any action that would narrow this important legal framework."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Kyle Busch has barely been able to sniff a Sprint Cup championship over the final weeks of a season during his career.
It seems by the time he gets to the end of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he already has been eliminated from contention.
So he has watched what other drivers do, and what other successful athletes do, in hopes of turning his strong regular-season performance into a championship effort.
"You watch guys that are good at what they do and what they can achieve in their own realm of what they're doing," Busch said Tuesday at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. "There's a reason Tom Brady has won three Super Bowls and he's one of the best quarterbacks in the league and there's a reason why Peyton Manning is probably considered one of the best.
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"You listen to what they say sometimes in their media excerpts that you get to read, or you also just get a chance to take in what they do on the field and how they're a leader and what they do with their team and how they can lead their team through difficult situations."
Busch, who recently visited Brady's New England Patriots, is third in the standings this year with two runnerup finishes and a fifth in the first three Chase races. He is just 12 points behind Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth, the series points leader, and four points behind second-place Jimmie Johnson.
Johnson has won five Cup titles; Kenseth has won one. Busch has never won one, and he's looking everywhere -- even outside the garage -- for ideas on how to handle the pressures of the Chase.
"The biggest thing is how they react to difficult situations with their team and what they do to get their team back focused in what they need to do, throughout a game, throughout plays, throughout an offensive series or even a defensive series," Busch said.
"You can watch Peyton Manning sit on the sidelines, they go down and have a bad defensive series, the other team scores and he knows he has got to get back up there and do something well."
But how does that help in racing when the green-flag waves?
"You see that in our sport where there's guys that are running well, they're running in front of you, they're passing you, they're going forward and maybe you're not," Busch said.
"You're stale. You know you can do it. You're capable of it. You've got to get with your team to make that happen."
Busch has never even won a race during the Chase except for 2005 when he wasn't part of the Chase field.
"The talking part (of those athletes), you can use that to your mentality or your focus during the races in being able to achieve just those moments where you're not freaking out about going backwards, that you're still trying to work on going forward," Busch said.
And it's not just those outside his team who have helped inspire him this year. Crew chief Dave Rogers and Busch's wife, Samantha, have both played a role, as has team owner Joe Gibbs, a hall-of-fame coach who won three Super Bowls with the Washington Redskins.
"Dave Rogers, he's been a huge inspiration and we've had a lot of big heart-to-heart moments that we've talked about," Busch said. "Joe, as well, too, I've talked to him some.
"Samantha, she's been there, she's been the voice of reason in my ear as well."
Busch has tried to avoid looking at the standings and just focusing on the task at hand. That could be key the next two weeks. The race Sunday at Kansas Speedway is at one of his worst tracks. The following week, the Cup teams race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where Busch has a dozen wins in the Nationwide and Truck series but no Cup victories.
"It's going to be a knock-out, drag-out, that's for sure," Busch said. "We're going to have to win some races. There's no doubt about that. ... It's a matter of continuing to knock out these top-fives right now, and when our wins come to us -- hopefully they do -- those will be the bonus points and those will be the extra points we need to get ourselves further up the ladder."


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Dr. Olga is a specialist in the care and treatment of children and special needs patients. Our dental hygienists and staff are all trained in pediatric care and have a love for their jobs working with children
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[Leigh] is a HAM operator (you may know him as wa5znu). He is familiar with a signal visualization tool called a waterfall which plots signal strength and frequency over time. He wanted to build his own waterfall and ended up with this Arduino-based version which he calls Cascata. Cascata means waterfall in Italian which meshes nicely with Arduino's country of origin
The display he chose is a Nokia LCD shield from SparkFun. It's easy to plug in and there were already libraries available to drive the display. The audio input just connects to a headphone plug (you can just make it out at the bottom right in the image above) using some electrical tape. A free-formed resistor divider ensures that the signal is within a measurable range. [Leigh] found that signal noise was a bit of a problem but was able to improve his results by adding a capacitor to the Arduino headers between the VREF and GND pins.
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The Bolsheviks (Russian: biteli, Cyrillic дермократы) are members of the Bolshevism (Russian: dzhedaizm, Cyrillic: прихватизация), a proto-sub-faction of the brand of Communism in Russia during its Revolution of 1917. The movement was initially composed almost entirely of eccentric beatnick singer/songwriter Lenin and the other members of his band, Lenin and the Marxists. They later became The Beatles, and finally The Bolsheviks, ruling without a single collective erection for most of its subsequent stronghold over the Soviet Onion and PBS.
Four beatnick/eccentrics from England and Russia met each other in the men's room of a Liverpool nudie bar and formed Lenin and the Marxists as a band with a socialist political message, but mainly because they were trying to score with Bohemian chicks. They were John Lenin, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison of Liverpool, England; and Herschel Jewface Trotsovski, better known as Leon "Snowball" Trotsky, of Gdeto, Russia. They switched names to The Beatles because Bohemian chicks found "Marxists" too difficult to pronounce.
After days of stealing friends' lighters and still not getting it on with Bohemian chicks, drummer Trotsovski professed himself a celibate double Muslim and became "Leon Trotsky", refusing to use what he referred to as a "slave name". His constant advocacy of Permanent Factionalism, incessant baking of bean pies, and reference to the other Beatles as "white devils" led to his ouster. Miraculously, in the midst of the Revolution of 1917, The Beatles found a replacement drummer in former hustler and child actor Joseph "Ringo" Stalin. The band was renamed The Bolsheviks, which is Russian for "Jedi", and their symbol was changed from the Eightball-and-Hooker to the Sickle-and-Hammer. Because George Harrison was a lifelong homosexual, he insisted that glitter stars also appear on the flag, but this caught on mostly in effeminate Gay China. Paul McCartney invented the Russian reversal and the Haiku before founding NAMBLA after the fall of the Soviet Onion.
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In order to prevent the inception of any more factions within The Bolsheviks, a central tenet of Bolshevism was contraception, as opposed to the celebate and eventually non-anti-pro-factionalist Menshevik-Bolshevik-Menshevik ways that lead to the first Trotsky split. Violence and Tupperware® parties were the other two major tenets.
After The Bolsheviks ran Trotsky out of Russia, they gained control of government. Bolshevism was made state ideology, and to make sure there were no changes for a long time, their policy of contraception was enacted and all erections were either rigged or single-candidate. Joseph "Ringo" Stalin, a lifelong anorexic and Marxist-style bulimic snatched the reins by mid-1917 and made his self-titled album "Ringo" whose first track, "Back in the USSR", was the only song on the Soviet Top Forty until his death in a SPAM cannery accident in 1953. While in power, however, Stalin instituted a system of purges in the belief that bulimia logically aided contraception. In fact, it was widely accepted as fact that a bona fide erection was completely impossible while vomiting up until 1994 when R. Kelly's tape revealed he preferred a combination of santorum and vomit to grease up your mom.
The Bolsheviks disbanded when Stalin died in church in 1953 with his penis in Burger King spokeswoman Nikita Khrushchev. True to the orthodoxy of the Communist Orthodox Church ideology, she became High Deity of both Burger King and the Soviet Onion, but only after a sex change in Thailand since Russian custom prohibited, then as today, women from doing anything of consequence. However, Nikita did not change her name after her procedure, as is common with other tranny woman-to-man Russians usually named Sasha, Yuri, Misha, Hirohito, Dima, Kolya, and the like. The operation necessitated the abortion of Nikita and Joseph "Ringo" Stalin's fœtus. It survived the procedure and stayed sober just long enough to marry-up. A second, post-partum, procedure is currently under intense research.
Today, The Bolsheviks are nearly entirely restricted to life in Nos Koleea, where they are notorious for converting aboriginals to foreign, bulimic ideas (Kolean: Juche). A small number also operate various daycare centers and lettuce farms as H2 guest workers in the United Stakes. The Nos Koleea-based Barbara Streisand Children's Fund has been directly linked to The Bolsheviks' financial fraud, bankrolling ads for exploitative reverse-mortgages and IKEA furniture layaway plans late night on Fox News.
"Bolshevik" can be said as an alternative to "bullshit" when trying not to sound vulgar


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For years, Maricopa County, Ariz., has been ground zero in the debate over immigration.
On one hand, the massive county, which includes the state capital of Phoenix, has a growing Latino population. On the other, it's home to publicity savvy Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has made his name by strictly enforcing, some say overstepping, immigration laws.
Last month, the Supreme Court struck down much of the state's immigration enforcement law known as SB 1070, even while leaving intact its most controversial provision. That allows Arizona police to question the immigration status of suspects they've stopped or arrested.
In the aftermath of the high court decision, Latino immigration activists are as busy as ever trying to transform the fear and frustration of Latino families into actual voting power.
'We Are America'
On a recent evening, more than 100 people filled the cafeteria of Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix for a forum on SB 1070. It was organized by the group Somos America — "We Are America" — and aimed at undocumented people.
Audience members dashed off questions on white note cards for a panel that included immigration attorneys and a representative from the Mexican Consulate.
Among the questions: "If I'm detained in my car and I don't have a driver's license, what can I show?"
Another asked: "If I go walking, can a policeman stop me and ask me for my immigration status?"
The question-and-answer period went on for more than an hour; no one left the room.
At the end of the evening, Somos America President Daniel Rodriguez took to the podium.
"Raise your hand," he said in Spanish, "if you know someone who's not here but needs this information. Raise your hand if you know someone who's been deported. Raise your hand if you know someone who has the power to vote."
Across the room, hands shot up at each statement.
"Every question, almost everyone raised their hands, and that just goes to show you that there's a lot of people that know the pain and the hurt of being deported or having to know someone that was deported," Rodriguez recounted.
Rodriguez told the crowd of mostly ineligible voters that they need to use that pain and turn it into power by tapping friends and family who can vote.
'Practically An American Without Papers'
The irony is, Rodriguez is himself undocumented. His mother brought him from Mexico to the U.S. illegally when he was a child. He calls himself a "Dreamer." He's college educated but has fallen short of the law degree he aspired to, thwarted by a lack of financial aid.
On June 15, President Obama ordered a stop to the deportations of younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have no criminal history. Obama's plan to defer action on deporting young illegal immigrants applies to Rodriguez, but he said he still worries about his future.
Chatting at the coffee shop he uses as his makeshift office, Rodriguez acknowledges that mobilizing in his community is not an easy task.
It's not like it was four years ago, Rodriguez says, when people seemed fired up about national politics.
"Before, I remember in 2008 when President Obama was running for office, [because of the] historical importance of his presidency he mobilized a lot of people of color, like Latinos, to come out there and vote. And I was out there getting people registered to vote, because we believed that change was going to happen, and that it was going to happen immediately," recalls Rodriguez.
"But now, four years after he was elected, and we saw that immigration reform did not pass. We saw record numbers of deportations," says Rodriguez. "Not a lot of Latinos are very enthusiastic this time to come out and vote. I think one of the ways that we're trying to combat that is by saying, you have two reasons to come out there and vote. One is to stop SB 1070 and laws like it. And two, the president already took a stance. The president already gave his deferred action to people that were qualified traditionally under the DREAM Act. And if we want to move forward, we need to elect a president that supports that."
Rodriguez, 26, says Obama's decision to defer action on deporting some young illegal immigrants was clearly a political move.
"The difference between what we're seeing now and what would have happened three or four years ago, is that now it's a political move by the president that he needs to make in order to win re-election, because of the growing power of Latino voters," says Rodriguez. "It's definitely progress."
Rodriguez moved to the U.S. with his family when he was 7. He says if he could, he would vote.
"To see people that have that privilege and not take it, and because they don't take it we have people elected that create laws that hurt me, that hurt my family, that hurt our communities. It can get frustrating," he says.
"I am practically an American without papers, and because of that I don't have the power to vote," says Rodriguez. "So, the best thing I can do now is organize those that can, and make them vote for me."
A 'Sleeping' Voting Bloc
True to his word, Rodriguez heads out in 111-degree heat to canvass in the Phoenix neighborhood where he grew up. His partner is fellow activist Maxima Guerrero of the group Promise Arizona.
As they walk through the neighborhood, the shades are drawn on every house. The few people who answer open their doors only partly, or peer at them through grated screens. Their goal is to register 40,000 voters in Maricopa County. But on this day, they're not having much luck.
Most of the people they encounter are ineligible to vote. One is a resident but not a citizen. Others may be here illegally. One is a felon, still on probation.
Finally, Jacqueline Duarte comes to the door. She's 19 and already registered to vote. She's not really following the national election, at least not yet. But ask her about immigration, and it's a different story.
"People are leaving. They can't fix papers. I know people that have been here for like 20 years, and they still can't fix anything," says Duarte. "So, I don't know, we just need change or something."
Those are concerns that Arizona State University political science professor Rodolfo Espino says are reverberating through Latino communities everywhere.
Like all voters, Latinos care about the economy and unemployment, but he says: "In the aftermath of the signing of SB 1070, what was one of the top concerns for Latino voters? Immigration."
And, Espino says, immigration remains a top concern after the Supreme Court decision on the law.
Espino says that while Latino voters have long been considered the "sleeping giant of American politics," their power as a voting bloc was minimal in past elections because they weren't concentrated in key battleground states. This year, with Latino populations on the rise in key swing states like Colorado, Nevada, Virginia and North Carolina, Espino says, it's a different story.
"Now [Latinos] can go to politicians at the national level and say, 'Hey, if you want to win national office, you have to listen to what we're asking for,' " says Espino. "And now, I think we're starting to see that."
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Washington, DC – United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today announced the results of the 2009 annual review of the operation and effectiveness of telecommunications trade agreements under Section 1377 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 ("1377 Review"). The results of the review, concluded on March 31, 2009, are set out in a Report of the 1377 Review released today. The Report of the 1377 Review identifies barriers facing U.S. telecommunications service and equipment suppliers, evaluates progress toward resolving ongoing problems, and lays out specific telecommunications-related issues on which USTR will focus its monitoring and enforcement efforts this year.
"Barriers to telecommunications services and equipment make it harder for the U.S. to compete in the in the global marketplace, and harder for us to evolve efficient and innovative communications infrastructure here at home," said Ambassador Kirk. "In these difficult times, it is more important than ever to make sure this engine of investment and growth is running strong. So whether the barriers are to U.S operators offering telecommunications services across borders or in foreign markets, U.S. consumers calling abroad or U.S. companies needing access to a high-quality global network, we will seek to reduce the difficulties that American companies and workers currently face."
This year's Report of the 1377 Review focuses on a broad range of concerns, including:
Issues with Major Suppliers: The Report highlights issues that competitive telecommunications carriers experience in Australia, Colombia, Germany, India, Mexico, Singapore, and Sweden when trying to lease parts of an incumbent operator's network.
Fixed and Mobile Call Termination Rates: The Report highlights the high rates or surcharges foreign operators in El Salvador, Jamaica, Japan, Peru, and Tonga charge U.S. telecommunications operators to deliver long-distance calls into the foreign operators' countries (the "termination rate"), resulting in higher costs for U.S. carriers and higher prices for U.S. consumers.
Transparency and Regulatory Independence: The Report highlights countries whose independent regulatory agencies need strengthening and whose transparency policies need improvement. Countries included in this section are China, Egypt, Germany, India, Israel, Mexico and South Africa.
Issues Affecting Telecommunications Equipment Trade: The Report discusses the equipment standards and conformity assessment (including testing requirements) imposed by Brazil, China, India, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, and Thailand that act as barriers to entry for U.S. telecommunications equipment.
Follow-up action: In the review, USTR identifies the most effective bilateral or multilateral fora to monitor, engage, and seek to resolve these issues, with discussions already advanced in many cases. For newer concerns, USTR will evaluate the best way forward to ensure the most expeditious and effective means of addressing the problem. The Report identifies the most effective bilateral or multilateral fora to monitor, engage, and seek to resolve these issues, with discussions already advanced in many cases. For newer concerns, USTR will evaluate the best way forward to ensure the most expeditious and effective means of addressing the problem.
In addition to the problems identified in this year's Report, USTR also marks progress with Oman, which eliminated unreasonably high licensing fees prior to entry into force of the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement.
Section 1377 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 requires USTR to review compliance by trade partners with trade agreements regarding telecommunications products and services (mainly, WTO and FTA commitments) by March 31 of each year. International trade agreements, including the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and U.S. free trade agreements, provide rules designed to ensure that companies have reasonable access to telecommunications networks, that competitive conditions are maintained, and that regulators act in a transparent and effective manner. These agreements also address conditions affecting the competitive supply of telecommunications equipment in foreign markets. USTR will continue to use these tools to assist in opening markets to give U.S. companies the ability to supply new and innovative products and services abroad.
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Properties offered for auction at tax foreclosure sales, but not sold, are deeded to the County. These properties are called "Tax-Title." They may still be purchased from the County through a process called a tax-title sale. A list of tax-title properties (PDF) is available at the Treasurer's Office. Tax-title properties are subject to the same risks as tax foreclosure properties. Check the Auctions page for sale dates and minimum bid lists.
Properties the County owns, not acquired through tax foreclosure, can be purchased if the Whatcom County Council has declared a property "surplus." A list of surplus County-owned property will be available at the Treasurer's Office, from time to time, when so declared.
Purchasing tax-title and County-owned surplus property is done through public auction, or by private negotiation without a call for bids per RCW 36.35.150, and is called a tax-title sale. It can take 6 months or more to bring a property to sale.
An Application to Purchase County Property (PDF), along with a $150 deposit starts the process. Each property requires a separate form and deposit. You may, however, request that several properties be sold as a group.
The Treasurer's Office schedules a meeting of the Whatcom County Property Management Committee to present all applications received. The committee makes a recommendation to retain or sell a property, either by public auction or private negotiation. If the committee recommends retaining the property, the applicant's deposit will be refunded. If the committee recommends in favor of the sale, a resolution is drafted and submitted to the County Executive.
The County Executive usually forwards the resolution to the Whatcom County Council.
The Whatcom County Council sets a public hearing date and applicants are notified. At the hearing the Council approves or rejects the sale. If the sale is rejected, the applicant's deposit is refunded.
If approved for sale by public auction, the Whatcom County Treasurer schedules the auction and the applicant is notified of the date, time and location. The auction is advertised in the local newspaper for 3 consecutive weeks.
Anyone can attend the public auction and bid on the properties for sale. If the applicant is the successful bidder at the sale, their deposit is applied to the purchase amount. The applicant's deposit is refunded, if they or their representative, are present at the sale and someone else purchases the property.
See our property auction research page for information on researching property.
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VMKF Moving Forward
We're not going anywhere! With the recent closure of Toontown Online, Pixie Hollow, and Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and any plans for reopening being off in the future, the administrators have had to make some difficult decisions. Do we change? To what? When? What will we be rated? We'd like to announce that we know the answers to those questions now. Wednesday October 16th the ToontownCentral.com site will be taken offline. Don't panic! We will reopen Friday October 18th as MMOCentralForums.com. The current URL will continue to redirect for some time. We'll warn you before it stops. Additionally, MMOCentralForums.com will condense most of our current sites into one. All DisneysOnlineWorlds sites except PixieHollowForums.com will be archived. MMOCentralForums? What will that do? MMOCentralForums won't be built around a single game. We will be offering forums for a wide variety of games along with the off topic and creative areas our members enjoy. There will also be forums geared towards specific age groups, which we will explain more when the site reopens. A few other surprises are in store!What happens to my account? All current TTC accounts will remain active. You will log in with your username and password just like you do now. Your contact list will be there, all images, all posts, reputation... Nothing will change. If you are a member of another site it will be necessary to register on the current www.ToontownCentral.com. We will be transferring all subscriptions (and a few other account perks as well!) from each archived site to the new MMOCentralForums.com. PixieHollowForums.com members will not need to do anything unless you'd like to join the new site as well.What will these new forums be rated? After a lot of thought and debate we have elected to remain G-rated with a few changes. Think of it as G+. The family friendly nature of our site is an important part of who we are. We will be posting an updated version of our policies to illustrate these changes.What do you mean "other sites will be archived." The current site will be closed and a redirect will be created. Those posts will be read-only. All images will also be saved. It will be necessary to create a new account on the TTC site. Unfortunately that is unavoidable. However, we will still maintain a scaled down forum for those sites on MMOCentralForums.com. You will not lose a place to talk about a game you loved! I'm part of a clan, what will happen to that? The decision to stay open or close will be made by your current clan leaders. At this time we have no plans to close any clans. Obviously, these are only the basics of our plans and what's in store. We have decided to make these changes so that we are more adaptable within the changing world of gaming. We are open to suggestions and ideas. We'll be different, but we hope you'll continue to call us home. |
So this website, VMKF, is closing on the 16th as well? We're basically relocating to Toontown Central, which is being renamed and repurposed?
And as a VMKF member, I will have to make a new account, losing my post count, reputation, awards, purple scrolly username, trivia scores, etc, and I will be back to the start as if I'm a new member? I fully understand the reason for the changes, just looking to clarify on a bit. Personally I don't know if I'll be registering on Toontown Central, this may be it for me. Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding everything though. |
I don't understand if this was posted on all of the forums for one consolidation, or just to alert all forum users to the new website for old TTO. If it is a merger, I get the change. Sad to potentially see VMKF go. Last of the original VMK forums around.
Couldn't enter this site the other day and thought it was closed already.
Good thing someone posted in the 'EKB Sighting' thread and an email was sent to me. Just in time to say my final goodbye to this wonderful forum. Had a lot of fun memories here :') Glad it is my first forum. Thank you very much VMKForums for everything. P.S.: Neoteny is still top poster? xD ~me~ |
Bye VMKForums!
Happy Trails!
Shame...I was hoping some old friends would come on here and see the PM's I left them (they seem to come on every once in a while) oh well, thanks for the heads up
Aww, well there goes my childhood...
C'ya on the other side... |
So will VMK wiki be shutting down?
Oh wow. This is heartbreaking. I've loved lurking these forums throughout the years. Even though I wasn't very active on here during VMK's run, I've enjoyed digging up the treasure troves of discussion on these forums. VMK Forums as it is now is like a museum; a sacred ground where I go to relive memories of a time past. I'm incredibly sad to see it go.
Well it was an honor to know you all. I know I wasn't on too much but this was an amazing community. I hope you all have great lives!
I'm sad to see the VMK Forums go. I made so many memories on here and it was a pleasure to get the opportunity to moderate on these forums. Will my Hall of Fame title transfer over if I create a new account on the new site?
Well, thanks for the memories VMKF :) I'll be sad to see all the old memories/threads I had go.
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Any day a race car driver loses his sponsor it's a bad day.
But when Blake Koch, a driver in NASCAR's junior circuit, Nationwide, lost his 20-race funding contract partly because of his outspoken Christian faith, you would think things couldn't get worse.
That, however, is not how Koch (pronounced Cook) rolls.
"If anything it's strengthened my faith," Koch, a 26-year-old devout Christian told the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association recently. "Here I am sponsorless right now and I've never had so much peace in my life."
And considering the timing, having peace during such uncertain times speaks as loud as the engine in Koch's No. 41 car coming down a straightaway.
Koch's in the process of buying a house just north of Charlotte, N.C., and his wife, Shannon, is due with the couple's first child in August.
But in late March, Koch was informed by ESPN that his commercial for "Rise Up and Register" was denied by the network for "political and religious overtones." And without the ESPN-aired commercial, the "Rise Up and Register" campaign decided their sponsorship would not have the same impact and pulled out of their commitment to Koch and Rick Ware Racing.
That has left Koch riding with an American Flag on the hood but without a primary sponsor, both in the last race (Fontana, Calif.) and this Saturday (Fort Worth, Texas) and his future remains uncertain.
A voicemail to Blake's father explained ESPN's decision: "It was declined for political and religious overtones, which we avoid by all of our standards. We looked at the (Rise Up and Register) website as well as Blake's website and do see the religious aspects of this. So those are the reasons."
Ironically, the "Rise Up and Register" campaign does not support either political party and the website has little religious material on it, other than a small ad promoting Koch's church-speaking tour and one paragraph about his faith.
Similarly, Koch's personal website is mostly about his racing career. Only the last paragraph on his biography and a tab labeled "outreach," which outlines his church-speaking engagements, talks about his faith in Christ.
But Koch, who is quick not to bash ESPN over its decision, has been uncomfortable even being linked to the drama. "I don't like controversy," he said.
But he's not about to shy away from his faith.
"As a Christian, we know that things aren't always going to be easy," said Koch, who is currently involved in Christian TV programming with the Daystar Television Network, last year's sponsor. "But I feel that God is with me 100 percent."
And Koch is not shy talking about God on race weekends, where he usually can be found at a local church sharing his testimony or in the infield sharing his faith with fans in what he's termed "Guerilla Evangelism."
"I'm not willing to hide my Christianity," Koch said on a recent "Fox and Friends" interview when asked if he would tone down the Christian material on his website. "That's the one thing I will not do, is deny my faith just because a particular sponsor might not like how I express my faith."
"I believe God is a big part of my racing career," said Koch, currently 20th in the Nationwide points standings. "I don't feel He would allow something to pull me out of racing altogether. I feel there's a bigger plan that God will bring the right sponsor along, someone who agrees with my beliefs."
Koch has been inspired by all the support, including hundreds of fans who have started a grass-roots effort through Twitter to convince Chick-fil-A to sponsor the No. 41 car.
A group of fellow Christian drivers in NASCAR sent him a text, telling Koch they were praying for him.
"It was really nice to see that text message saying they have my back," he said.
And Koch's family has also been a major source of encouragement.
"My dad called me this morning with a great devotion about how we have to be prepared for persecution and for battles in our life," he said. "It's expected on a daily basis, but I know that God's in control. I just need to be obedient to His Word."


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Other Alias
Lb libcSYNOPSIS
In unistd.h Ft int Fn execve const char *path char *const argv[] char *const envp[] Ft int Fn fexecve int fd char *const argv[] char *const envp[]DESCRIPTION
The Fn execve system call transforms the calling process into a new process. The new process is constructed from an ordinary file, whose name is pointed to by Fa path , called the new process file The Fn fexecve system call is equivalent to Fn execve except that the file to be executed is determined by the file descriptor Fa fd instead of a Fa path . This file is either an executable object file, or a file of data for an interpreter. An executable object file consists of an identifying header, followed by pages of data representing the initial program (text) and initialized data pages. Additional pages may be specified by the header to be initialized with zero data; see elf(5) and a.out5.An interpreter file begins with a line of the form:
#! interpreter Bq Em arg
When an interpreter file is execve Ap d the system actually execve Ap s the specified interpreter If the optional arg is specified, it becomes the first argument to the interpreter and the name of the originally execve Ap d file becomes the second argument; otherwise, the name of the originally execve Ap d file becomes the first argument. The original arguments are shifted over to become the subsequent arguments. The zeroth argument is set to the specified interpreter
The argument Fa argv is a pointer to a null-terminated array of character pointers to null-terminated character strings. These strings construct the argument list to be made available to the new process. At least one argument must be present in the array; by custom, the first element should be the name of the executed program (for example, the last component of Fa path ) .
The argument Fa envp is also a pointer to a null-terminated array of character pointers to null-terminated strings. A pointer to this array is normally stored in the global variable environ These strings pass information to the new process that is not directly an argument to the command (see environ(7)).
File descriptors open in the calling process image remain open in the new process image, except for those for which the close-on-exec flag is set (see close(2) and fcntl(2)). Descriptors that remain open are unaffected by Fn execve . If any of the standard descriptors (0, 1, and/or 2) are closed at the time Fn execve is called, and the process will gain privilege as a result of set-id semantics, those descriptors will be re-opened automatically. No programs, whether privileged or not, should assume that these descriptors will remain closed across a call to Fn execve .
Signals set to be ignored in the calling process are set to be ignored in the new process. Signals which are set to be caught in the calling process image are set to default action in the new process image. Blocked signals remain blocked regardless of changes to the signal action. The signal stack is reset to be undefined (see sigaction(2) for more information).
If the set-user-ID mode bit of the new process image file is set (see chmod(2)), the effective user ID of the new process image is set to the owner ID of the new process image file. If the set-group-ID mode bit of the new process image file is set, the effective group ID of the new process image is set to the group ID of the new process image file. (The effective group ID is the first element of the group list.) The real user ID, real group ID and other group IDs of the new process image remain the same as the calling process image. After any set-user-ID and set-group-ID processing, the effective user ID is recorded as the saved set-user-ID, and the effective group ID is recorded as the saved set-group-ID. These values may be used in changing the effective IDs later (see setuid(2)).
The set-ID bits are not honored if the respective file system has the nosuid option enabled or if the new process file is an interpreter file. Syscall tracing is disabled if effective IDs are changed.
The new process also inherits the following attributes from the calling process:
- process ID Ta see getpid(2)
- parent process ID Ta see getppid(2)
- process group ID Ta see getpgrp(2)
- access groups Ta see getgroups(2)
- working directory Ta see chdir(2)
- root directory Ta see chroot(2)
- control terminal Ta see termios(4)
- resource usages Ta see getrusage(2)
- interval timers Ta see getitimer(2)
- resource limits Ta see getrlimit(2)
- file mode mask Ta see umask(2)
- signal mask Ta see sigaction(2)
- sigprocmask(2)
When a program is executed as a result of an Fn execve system call, it is entered as follows:
main(argc, argv, envp) int argc; char **argv, **envp;
where Fa argc is the number of elements in Fa argv (the ``arg count'') and Fa argv points to the array of character pointers to the arguments themselves.
The Fn fexecve ignores the file offset of Fa fd . Since execute permission is checked by Fn fexecve , the file descriptor Fa fd need not have been opened with the O_EXEC flag. However, if the file to be executed denies read permission for the process preparing to do the exec, the only way to provide the Fa fd to Fn fexecve is to use the O_EXEC flag when opening Fa fd . Note that the file to be executed can not be open for writing.
As the Fn execve system call overlays the current process image with a new process image the successful call has no process to return to. If Fn execve does return to the calling process an error has occurred; the return value will be -1 and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.ERRORS
The Fn execve system call will fail and return to the calling process if:- Bq Er ENOTDIR
- A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
- Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
- A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
- Bq Er ENOEXEC
- When invoking an interpreted script, the length of the first line, inclusive of the #! prefix and terminating newline, exceeds MAXSHELLCMDLEN characters.
- Bq Er ENOENT
- The new process file does not exist.
- Bq Er ELOOP
- Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
- Bq Er EACCES
- Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
- Bq Er EACCES
- The new process file is not an ordinary file.
- Bq Er EACCES
- The new process file mode denies execute permission.
- Bq Er ENOEXEC
- The new process file has the appropriate access permission, but has an invalid magic number in its header.
- Bq Er ETXTBSY
- The new process file is a pure procedure (shared text) file that is currently open for writing by some process.
- Bq Er ENOMEM
- The new process requires more virtual memory than is allowed by the imposed maximum (getrlimit(2) )
- Bq Er E2BIG
- The number of bytes in the new process' argument list is larger than the system-imposed limit. This limit is specified by the sysctl(3) MIB variable KERN_ARGMAX
- Bq Er EFAULT
- The new process file is not as long as indicated by the size values in its header.
- Bq Er EFAULT
- The Fa path , Fa argv , or Fa envp arguments point to an illegal address.
- Bq Er EIO
- An I/O error occurred while reading from the file system.
In addition, the Fn fexecve will fail and return to the calling process if:
- Bq Er EBADF
- The Fa fd argument is not a valid file descriptor open for executing.
The Fn execve system call conforms to St -p1003.1-2001 , with the exception of reopening descriptors 0, 1, and/or 2 in certain circumstances. A future update of the Standard is expected to require this behavior, and it may become the default for non-privileged processes as well. The support for executing interpreted programs is an extension. The Fn fexecve system call conforms to The Open Group Extended API Set 2 specification.HISTORY
The Fn execve system call appeared in BSD 4.2 The Fn fexecve system call appeared in Fx 8.0 .CAVEATS
If a program is setuid to a non-super-user, but is executed when the real uid is ``root'', then the program has some of the powers of a super-user as well.When executing an interpreted program through Fn fexecve , kernel supplies /dev/fd/n as a second argument to the interpreter, where n is the file descriptor passed in the Fa fd argument to Fn fexecve . For this construction to work correctly, the fdescfs(5) filesystem shall be mounted on /dev/fd


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How North Carolina Came to Be Shaped Like It Is Today
When did North Carolina become known as North Carolina and acquire its modern shape? We must go back to Jan. 24, 1712, when Edward Hyde became the first governor of what became known as North Carolina, or more specifically, he was the first official governor under the Lords Proprietors. Carolina was then divided into two … Continued


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McLaren 650S Coupe Concept Revealed
Bespoke concept tours China
McLaren 650S Coupe Concept Details
Following some criticisms of the McLaren MP4-12C, the British carmaker recently released the 650S Coupe. This was designed to silence the critics but it seems that McLaren isn't afraid to optimize the new car within months of its release.
In fact, McLaren Special Operations, the bespoke division within McLaren Automotive, has unveiled this 650S Coupe Concept ahead of a Chinese tour. The McLaren 650S Coupe Concept will travel to major cities to show off its bespoke features, that include a new carbon fiber rear diffuser and carbon fiber side blades.
These parts will be available from MSO for the existing McLaren 650S Coupe and 650S Spider, if customers wish to fit them. The Concept itself was painted in 'Agrigan Black'. It's a metallic black developed in-house with a deep ruby red metallic flake. This gives the bodywork a dramatic color-change in direct sunlight.
The paint is contrasted by the extensive use of satin-finished carbon fiber highlights, including the front splitter and air intakes plus the new side blades and diffuser.
Both the side blades and GT3-inspired rear diffuser are claimed to increase aerodynamic downforce, serving as a useful addition to the car. The engine bay of the McLaren 650S Coupe Concept was further enhanced with satin-black engine covers and a satin finish on all the carbon fiber parts. The exterior was completed with a satin-black finish on the lightweight 650S Coupe wheels, which are shod with Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires.
The McLaren 650S Coupe Concept cockpit has unique fixed-back carbon fiber seats. Finished in carbon black leather, they were based on the design found in the McLaren P1. In additional to providing extra support and seating the occupants lower in the car, they also saved 33 lb.
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Jury Awards Apple a Giga-Buck
The headline in the New York Times brought what I had thought would be unambiguous good news or at the very least non-news to most people. A San Jose jury had found in favor of Apple in a patent infringement case against Samsung and awarded Apple one billion dollars in compensation. The suit involved infringement on patents for the iPhone and iPad.
But of course there was diverse opinion over the verdict. Much of the commentary in the Times was of this variety:
"This is an overreach of the patent law. If the first carmaker (Daimler) would have patented this new type of vehicle, there might never have been an American (sic) car industry. Apple ends up looking bad in the end, since it's obvious that they are trying to stifle a competitor that is starting to get better at doing something Apple did first.
But I disagree. In that vein, did you know that the Wright Brothers patented the airplane? It's U.S. patent No. 821,393 in case you are curious. You can look it up. That patent didn't seem to slow down the evolution of the aviation industry.
I don't usually comment on stuff like this but I feel compelled to because what passes for logic in this case is terrible. Much of the commentary is a misguided attempt the re-examine the patent process. The commentators disagree about whether this or that feature should be patented or patentable but that train left Dodge a long time before trial. They also engage in retrograde thinking, by essentially saying that the patent is obvious today so why was it needed in the first place? But the ideas that go into patents are rarely obvious at the time of invention and patents are awarded to protect an innovation by giving its authors time to profit from their invention. Without patents would we still bother to invest billions in R&D not to mention the time and effort to invent things?
The patents were awarded fair and square regardless of what anyone thinks now. The only question before the court was whether or not Samsung illegally copied a feature or function for which Apple had won a patent. The answer was a resounding yes. Yes, Samsung deliberately and knowingly broke the law by using someone else's property without paying for it.
The issue was never about how deserving Apple or anyone else is or was of receiving a patent. It wasn't even about Apple using its great wealth to prosecute an even wealthier corporation.
When did we as a people become so illogical?
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[Respected Harikatha Readers,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga. You will be happy to know that this year's Gaura-purnima festival and Navadvipa-dhama parikrama were very successfully completed, and the beautiful temple-complex of the Deities Sri Sri Radha-Vinoda-bihari, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and Sri Laksmi-Varahadeva at the Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Math in Koladvipa is about eighty percent completed. About one-thousand Western devotees attended Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja's Navadvipa Parikrama festival this year, and about fourteen or fifteen thousand Bengali and other Indian devotees attended.
On March 4th news came of the disappearance of Srila Bhaktivaibhava Puri Maharaja. Upon hearing this news Srila Maharaja immediately sent two representatives to Jagganath Puri to attend the samadhi ceremony on his behalf.
In his classes on the days preceding Gaura-purnima, Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja talked about the superiority of Navadvipa dhama over all other abodes of the Lord in this world, and he also spoke about Mahaprabhu's abodes of Navadvipa, Jagannatha Puri, and Godavari corresponding to Sri Krsna's abodes of Vrndavana, Dvaraka, and Kuruksetra. Because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Sri Krsna covered by the complexion and ecstatic sentiments of Srimati Radhika, Srila Maharaja also talked about Mahaprabhu's moods in Navadvipa, Puri, and Godavari corresponding with Srimati Radhika's moods in Vrndavana, Uddhava Kyari (when Krsna was in Mathura and Dvaraka), and Kuruksetra. Srila Maharaja spoke in Bengali, not English. Therefore, in order that we can provide you with his harikatha on this subject, we are sending two very similar classes, which he spoke in English in previous years. By reading these classes, you will understand what he spoke about in Navadvipa this year. Today you will receive the first class, and in a few days you will receive the second:]
Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Math:
Koladvipa, Navadvipa-dhama: March 17, 2005
What is the glory of Navadvipa? The original Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna appeared in this world and performed His astonishing pastimes in Vrndavana. Yet, all of His desires were not fulfilled at that time. Those desires that were not fulfilled by Him during His pastimes in Vrndavana were fulfilled when He appeared here in Navadvipa-dhama in the form of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In Vrndavana He tasted prema (pure love of God) as the object of the prema of His devotees, but He did not know how the devotees felt in their love for Him. He could not taste what they experience in their loving mood. Also, in Gokula (Vrndavana manifest in this world), He did not distribute prema to one and all. It is only here in Navadvipa-dhama that He - as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - so freely distributed it. He tasted the prema of the reservoir of love, His devotees, and especially Srimati Radhika, and He also distributed prema - especially the prema of Radhika's maidservants.
Not only did Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu distribute this to the devotees who had become qualified by their practices, but even to those who were fallen and offensive. When He was on His way to Vrndavana He came to Kasi, and there He gave mercy to the leader of the mayavadis, Prakasananda Sarasvati - and not only to him, but also to his sixty-thousand sannyasa disciples.
He is the most merciful incarnation. In other incarnations, if anyone was opposed to Him, He would take up His weapon and kill him. But Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu never did so. Rather, He purified the hearts of the offenders through the chanting of the holy names and bestowed upon them love of God. Here in Navadvipa-dhama, He gave His mercy to the most sinful Jagai and Madhai, and to so many others. He caused an inundation of transcendental love and made everyone dance.
After taking sannyasa, Caitanya Mahaprabhu went to Jagannatha Puri, and there He met with Sri Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, who was a leader of the mayavadis, those who are very much antagonistic to the cult of pure devotion. He also gave mercy to him and converted him. When He was in South India, traveling here and there, He was so merciful that all the living entities, even those who saw Him from very far away, became overwhelmed with prema.
So many pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu took place here in Navadvipa. He also spent many years in Jagannatha Puri. He also went to South India, to the bank of the Godavari, where He met with Sri Raya Ramananda and had very confidential discussions. Of these three abodes of the Lord - Navadvipa, Jagannatha Puri, and Godavari - which one is superior? Nowadays there is a great deal of confusion about this topic. Many people have a wrong understanding, because the real philosophical conclusion is very deep and difficult to understand.
Navadvipa-dhama, where we have now come, is the highest.* This place is superior to both Jagannatha Puri and Godavari. Why? There are so many reasons.
Someone may say that Jagannatha Puri is the highest place, because it was there in the Gambhira that Mahaprabhu relished vipralamba rasa (Srimati Radhika's separation mood for Sri Krsna) and fulfilled His three desires. But Jagannatha Puri is a manifestation of Dvaraka Puri. Sometimes, according to Mahaprabhu's mood, He would also see it as Kuruksetra and become absorbed in the meeting of Radha and Krsna there. We cannot say that it is Vrndavana. In Vrndavana there are twelve forests, such as Vrndavana, Kumudvana, Bahulavana, Kelanvana, etc. Where are they in Jagannatha Puri? We cannot find them. On the other hand, here in Navadvipa-dhama, all the twelve forests of Vrndavana are present. This place in which we are now situated is called Koladvipa. Koladvipa is non-different from Giriraja-Govardhana, and very close by is Syama-kunda and Radha-kunda. Where are Syama-kunda and Radha-kunda in Jagannatha Puri? Very close by here is Panca-veni, which is superior to Prayag. At Prayag the Yamuna, Ganga and Sarasvati rivers meet. But here, Yamuna, Ganga, Sarasvati, Alakananda, Godavari, Kaveri, Sindhu, Narmada and all the other holy rivers meet. We call that place in Navadvipa, Panca-veni, the meeting of five holy places or holy rivers, but don't think there are only five. Thousands upon thousands - all the sacred rivers - have descended and are meeting together here at Panca-veni in Navadvipa. In Jagannatha Puri the ocean is a maha-tirtha (great holy place), because Caitanya Mahaprabhu bathed the transcendental body of Srila Haridasa Thakura there. But even the ocean came here to Navadvipa-dhama at Samudragadha. So this place is superior to Prayag.
Navadvipa-dhama is called gupta (hidden) Vrndavana, because all the pastime places of Vrndavana, like the rasa-sthalis (the areas of the rasa dance), Giriraja-Govardhana, Syama-kunda, Radha-kunda - all twelve forests - are here in a hidden way.
Another important point: Lord Krsna's eternal pastimes (nitya-lila) in Vrndavana are called asta-kaliya-lila. The twenty-four-hour day of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna is divided into eight parts, beginning with nisanta-lila (pre-dawn pastimes), pratah-lila (morning pastimes), purvahna-lila (forenoon pastimes), madhyana-lila (midday pastimes), aparahna-lila (afternoon pastimes), sayama-lila (dusk pastimes), pradosa-lila (evening pastimes) and ratri-lila (nighttime pastimes). Just as Sri Sri Radha-Krsna performed Their asta-kaliya-lila in Vrndavana, Sri Gauranga, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, performed His asta-kaliya-lila here in Navadvipa-dhama.
Is it mentioned in any scripture that He performed His asta-kaliya-lila in Jagannatha Puri? Does He perform His asta-kaliya-lila in Godavari? There is no mention of this. His nitya-lila, the origin or root of all His pastimes, takes place here in Navadvipa-dhama. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu remembers the nisanta-lila of Radha and Krsna at the end of the night and becomes overwhelmed in ecstasy. Then later, early in the morning he goes with His friends to take bath in the Ganga. In His ratri-lila, He performs His sankirtana rasa. In this way He performs His asta-kaliya-lila, completely absorbed in the asta-kaliya-lila of Radha and Krsna.
Another reason for the superiority of Navadvipa-dhama is as follows. Even though Jagannatha Puri and Godavari are very elevated, transcendental abodes, the pastimes there are aisvarya-mayi-lila (pastimes in opulence and majesty). There, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was worshipped as God. In Godavari He manifested His form as Rasaraja-mahabhava, Sri Sri Radha and Krsna combined as one, and this pastime is also aisvarya-mayi-lila.
In Jagannatha Puri He performed pastimes in the Gambhira, but only Sri Svarupa Damodara, Sri Raya Ramanada, Sri Sikhi Mahiti and His sister Srimati Madhavi devi - three-and-a-half intimate associates - could take part. Here in Navadvipa-dhama, on the other hand, His pastimes are madhurya-mayi-lila (sweet, human-like), not aisvarya-mayi-lila. Here, Sri Sacinandana Gaurahari meets in lokika sadbhanduvat sambhanda (natural, family-like relationships) with all the residents. When we try to understand if a particular pastime is superior to others, the ultimate measure is whether that pastime is purely madhurya. Madhurya-lila are those pastimes resembling sweet, human-like activities with human-like relationships, without any trace of the mood of aisvarya. And, even if any of those pastimes would be full of opulence, they would be seen as human-like by the Lord's associates.
Thus, this dhama is so exalted and extraordinary, superior to every other place of Mahaprabhu's pastimes.
Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami prays:
yat kincit trna-gulam kikata mukham gosthe samastam hi tat
sarvanandamayam mukunda dayitam lilanukulam param
sastrair eva muhur muhuh sphutam idam nistankitam yacnya
brahmader api sasprhena tad idam sarvam maya vandyate
["With great longing I worship all the living entities of Vraja including the grass, bushes, flies, and birds, which are filled with transcendental bliss. Their fortune is so great that it is aspired for by personalities like Sri Brahma and Uddhava. Srimad Bhagavatam and other sastras have repeatedly and clearly propounded their glories. They are very dear to Sri Mukunda and assist in His pastimes." (Raghunatha dasa - Stavavali, Vraja-vilasa-stava, 102)]
"I pray to all the living entities of Vrndavana, including the grass, bushes, insects and birds." This verse is also applicable to Navadvipa-dhama. Every living entity here - every tree and creeper - is sat-cit-ananda, made of eternity, full knowledge and bliss, and they assist the Lord's pastimes. Therefore, even great personalities such as Lord Brahma have prayed to become stones and blades of grass in such an unprecedented and transcendental abode.
Who can realize these truths? Our previous acaryas, Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja and Srila Gour Kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja, can do so. They used to give respects even to the dogs of this abode. Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja used take his prasadam with puppies, who were eating from his plate. He used to say, "Oh, they are the dogs of Navadvipa-dhama". Our acaryas illustrated through their lives what kind of very high level of respect one should have in approaching this extraordinary place.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu lived here in the house of Sacimata in Mayapura, in Antardvipa. He performed His pastimes here, and after twenty-four years, He took sannyasa and went to Jagannatha Puri and so many other places. However, even when He took sannyasa and appeared to leave this dhama, He was still present here. Only those who are extremely fortunate and whose love is mature can realize how He always performs His pastimes here in this transcendental place, and how He never leaves.
Sri Navadvipa dhama ki jaya!
The Harikatha team


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Dallas, TX – Pekka Rinne posted 32 saves for his fifth shutout of the season as the Nashville Predators took a 4-0 win over the Dallas Stars.
Shea Weber, Nick Spaling, Gabriel Bourque and Rich Clune all scored for the Predators, who came into the game having lost four of their last five. David Legwand and Craig Smith added two assists each.
"We got a couple of power-play goals tonight and a little bit of balanced scoring," said Nashville head coach Barry Trotz. "Had a good plan there. Second period, Rinne was outstanding, absolutely outstanding. Made some huge saves and then I thought in the third period we actually played OK."
Kari Lehtonen gave up all four goals on 21 shots for the Stars, who have dropped their past two games.
"We needed to be a little bit better in a bunch of areas," said Dallas head coach Glen Gulutzan. "I thought early on we made a couple of young errors and some turnovers, especially with our defense in the back end. We need our big guys to step up when those situations happen and take control and we didn't do it."
The Predators got the only goal they needed with 7:44 to play in the first as Spaling's wrister from the left circle sailed over the glove of Lehtonen for his fourth of the season.
It was a 2-0 game just 2:16 into the second as Nashville got one on the power play when Weber potted a rebound off a Legwand shot for his fourth of the season and first goal in eight games.
Clune made it a 3-0 game with a penalty shot goal as he beat Lehtonen between the pads. The shot was awarded when Clune was hooked by Jordie Benn on a breakaway.
Bourque's rebound goal came on the power play with 5:02 to play to cap the scoring.
Game Notes
Dallas winger Ray Whitney returned to play after missing the previous 16 games with a hairline fracture on his foot ... It was Nashville's first penalty shot goal since Nov. 9, 2011, when Martin Erat scored one against Anaheim ... Nashville continues its five-game road trip in Vancouver on Thursday ... Dallas hosts Anaheim on Thursday ... The Preds have taken both games against the Stars this season, having won a 5-4 overtime tilt on Feb. 25 in Nashville ... Rinne has 30 shutouts in his career.


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